LINCOLN
GRANT
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To get review started tonight, let's start with some sample questions. What I would like you to do is A.) Select the correct answer and B.) Provide a written rationale as to why you selected this answer.
Example A:
“ We find it easy to tread on and crush a worm that we see crawling on the earth; so it is easy for us to cut or singe a slender thread that any thing hangs by: thus easy is it for God, when he pleases, to cast his enemies down to hell.”
The above quotation most sounds like the viewpoint of which of the following colonial leaders?
A. John Peter Zenger
B. Samuel Adams
C. Jonathan Edwards
D. Patrick Henry
E. Thomas Jefferson
Answer: C. Rationale: As a major figure of the Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards's preaching was notable for its provocative Biblical imagery, a tactic that worked to great effect in sermon's such as "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."
A superior response may recognize that the above quote is actually from Edwards's famouns "Sinners. . ." sermon. The other colonial leaders mentioned above were more notable for their public statements concerning colonial politics.
So, let's try some for our current American Civil War Unit:
Example B:
The most important influence on the expansion of American slavery during the 1800s was the
A.) invention of the cotton gin
B.) Congressional gag rule against discussing slavery in Congress
C.) American Colonization society
D.) Underground Railroad
E.) 3/5 Compromise
Example C
The 1850s were marked by intense North-South debate over the issue of slavery in the territories, yet the census of 1860 listed only nine total slaves in the Kansas-Nebraska territories. What explains the contradiction between the actual number of slaves in the territories and the intensity of the dispute?
A.) Slaveholders expected to move into Kansas and Nebraska when opposition to slavery in that area decreased.
B.) The issue of slavery in the territories had become an important symbol to both sections and an indication of the future direction of the country.
C.) The Lecompton Constitution safeguarding slaveholders had not yet been adopted.
D.) John Brown's Raid at Harper's Ferry led to Pottawatomie massacre, causing slaveholders to retreat to Missouri
E.) Slavery was tied to cotton production, which was impractical in the territories
